Example sentences of "you [was/were] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you personally be more motivated and work more effectively if you were to receive a share of the profit at the year end ? |
| 2 | It is very difficult to design a pressed flower picture on to a background material that has already been printed with a design , and if you were to use a floral fabric it might be hard to spot where your picture stops and the print begins . |
| 3 | If you were to use a DOS word processor as well as a DOS spreadsheet in the Windows environment then you can use the same method but in this case you would have to use the Edit , Paste command in the Windows Control menu box . |
| 4 | and you never say anything that I do n't understand , unless you were to use a word like crome . |
| 5 | ‘ You were singing a nursery rhyme — about the moon . ’ |
| 6 | Let's say you were buying a particular stock … ’ |
| 7 | If you were buying a house , though , we do a Mortgage Master |
| 8 | Yeah , I know you were buying a jumper one Christmas . |
| 9 | oh I thought you were buying a new one with that money |
| 10 | You were wearing a blue gaberdine suit and a white blouse with a pussy bow at the neck . ’ |
| 11 | And you were wearing a ski-jacket , puffy navy thing . |
| 12 | The people here thought that if your wrists were n't tennis racket handle-width on your sixth birthday then you were called a ‘ fat ’ and transferred into the ‘ right ’ . |
| 13 | Yeah , honestly , I would n't put it on , if you were stopping a week . |
| 14 | I thought you were cooking a meal tomorrow ? |
| 15 | The real reason she 'd wanted to leave was the harsh discovery that when you were nursing a broken heart there was nothing more painful than being surrounded by others who were happily in love . |
| 16 | It was like you know , you were digging a hole and er it was , it was making it very difficult for me to want to buy you see ? |
| 17 | ‘ Besides , I assumed since you were here in Copenhagen you were seeking a Copenhagener . |
| 18 | Now let's say we 've done that we thought there were three people here so you though you were getting a third right . |
| 19 | So it 's I mean , let's see , you were getting a thousand pound a month , you 're now gon na get eleven hundred pounds a month , |
| 20 | You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page . |
| 21 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 22 | You were getting a bit close to my bloody money then ! |
| 23 | Did n't know you were getting a voucher . |
| 24 | Hundred and thirty to a hundred and forty 's the limit of physical pain , you really would scream if you were getting a noise input at that level . |
| 25 | So I climbed into the rucksack while you were taking a pee back at The Wife 's Legs . |
| 26 | You were holding a banner . ’ |
| 27 | He confirmed this impression by asking in tones rank with disbelief , ‘ You mean to tell me you thought you were pursuing a poor man ? ’ |
| 28 | If you were encountering a tyrannical overlord , what would you do ? |
| 29 | If you were to take a pencil and cross out every verse in the New Testament which refers to the resurrection or to the idea that Jesus Christ is alive , you would not have much of the New Testament left . |
| 30 | Hence if you were to take a guess at selecting a high-fibre vegetable you might well think of something like celery , which seems to reveal its fibre content unmistakably . |